Is she? We just heard how the gods are shaped by their followers, all of her followers still see her as evil, power hungry and cruel so how could she be anything else?
Perhaps, but every other time it’s ended with Marion convincing Ranna to stand down, so there’s the possibility that the knowledge Marion shares gives them the ability to think things through without their follower’s influence. (Kind of like a parent sitting down with a rebellious teenager and showing how much of a bad influence their friends are having, giving them a moment of clarity).
Personally, I feel that it’s better narratively that being evil is Ranna’s choice rather than something thrust upon her, but that’s just my own personal opinion.
Hard to say, but I would argue that no matter what Marion thinks, this proves Ranna is beyond any rehabilitation. She must be destroyed. Suddenly it’s good that the mages didn’t stopped building that spell …
Sure. Whether Ranna just freely chose her course, or whether she’s helpless to defy her followers, she’s turned down the only shot at redemption the world can afford to offer her.
Considering all the shit Ch’Thier and her followers have done to Ranna, let’s call this… a little payback
Not saying that Ranna isn’t a (completely) innocent party in this, but let’s look at what Team Golden Hair has done: after Ranna get’s banned from all official functions because she gets bored and ‘acts up’, she and Her people leave the village, TGH decide to pull down their old homes (probably before they even got out of sight) to build Castle TGH, and then they start spreading lies about Ranna that *everyone* was quick to believe to be true
Whenever the Sisters get together to beat out their differences in a ‘healthy controlled’ fashion and Auntie comes along to break it, it is *Ch’Thier* who wants continue the fight and *Ranna* who leaves peacefully
I guess this is how magic died in that world, the next few pages won’t be pretty.
Poor Chithy, she forgot that rule, the one about living in the Current Century…..
And apparently, this is the inevitable result of Evil looking cool and Good being the low I.Q. option, but that’s been a running argument since 1st Edition D&D.
If I have been following properly then magic is ambient in the ether but a god would help funnel it to their followers. The effect of followers on their deity has a response between the two. It follows a type of rule of physics.
Good is not dumb. Remember, the movie that coined that phrase, "Spaceballs," had it being said by an incompetent boob wearing an oversized plastic hat, right before he shot himself in the groin with his own Schwartz ray.
If anything, evil is stupid – especially in a D&D setting where you KNOW what kind of afterlife awaits you.
Oh, I agree! Its just that the message we keep getting in fiction (all of it) is just so… bleak. And there was that show "Lucifer" that bothers me, and I’m not even a Christian.
I dunno, forget it, I bought a bed from a very disreputable company and have been getting by on 3 hours of sleep a night for most of this week.
Erf. I had that problem once. Salesman screwed us over. I was polite but firm with the manager, and ended up getting a free futon out of it in the end.
Most people don’t actually know what afterlife awaits them. And the ones that have an idea often get the details wrong (nobody who earns a place in Hell thinks they’ll end up on the very bottom of the hierarchy when they get there), Then add in that if you follow an evil god you get whatever afterlife they decide you get instead of what you’d deserve morally.
So what Marion ended up accomplishing, inadvertently, was showing Ranna that Ch’Thier had something she wanted for herself after all.
The Goddess of Evil would never have wanted to devour and incorporate the Goddess of Good; that was a portfolio she had no interest in. But for the Goddess of Chaos to devour the Goddess of Law, seize both portfolios, and continue to be as evil as she wants because that’s just *her*; it’s not either of their essences as deities?
So yeap. Marion’s story very much told how the gods change to fit what their worshippers think of them. Ranna’s been worshipped as a goddess of evil for so long with nobody having a clue about any of this "chaos" stuff, why would she even actually BE this supposed goddess of chaos rather than a goddess of evil anymore? And why would she do anything but exactly this? GG no re, as they say
Caught in the middle of a hundred and five / Far away on the other side / The night was heavy, and the air was alive / But she couldn’t find how to push through.
Yeah, if a deity of chaos and cruelty expects to consume a deity of purity and pacifism to take her power and portfolio, she’s fooling herself if she thinks she’s not gonna have something dramatic happen to her.
If nothing else, Ch’Thier knows that there is a backup plan should she fail to talk Ranna down. I wonder if, upon absorbing Ch’Thier’s power, Ranna will also gain her memories, and hew knowledge of the mages’ plans.
If so, the next bit might be a quick-draw contest: can the mages and priestesses trigger their trap before Ranna shoots down their flying Temple?
Well, Ch’Thier is not completly eaten yet, so she could try to fight back. I don’t think she would succed though, Ranna still should have the power of 10 gods after all…
The idea of getting her memories is an interesting one. In that case she will surely show the power in her left tit – she will need it to fight the mages. 🙂
You bring up a good point. I don’t remember if any of the other deities Ranna ate had a noticeable impact on her personality, or if she just subsumed them as she consumed them.
Wonder if we’re going to see the little figment of Ranna’s creation again? It’s all progressing as I expected. (And by that, I mean it’s super entertaining.)
So a scorpion and a frog meet by the side of a lake…
I like Ranna’s plan. It is, at this point, the most logical and overall beneficial course of action.
*Follow:
Ch’Thier is pushing the viewpoint of Order, advocating ‘fixing’ things, which consists of aborting the current conflict, healing the wounded, rebuilding the cities… and essentially returning to the status quo.
Which, as Marion’s story demonstrates, is not a long-term solution. It’s been tried. It has never worked.
The gods themselves are less powerful than the cumulative misapprehensions of the people (synonym for people in this context: mob). Ultimately, and inevitably, whatever daisy-chain utopia Ch’Thier envisions is going to be dragged back into conflict – and she might even be the one instigating it.
"If fate works at all, it’s because people think that this time, it isn’t going to happen."
Enter the Chaos solution.
People are the problem. And they’re going to override the best of intentions, every time. So – let’s wipe ’em out and see what grows up in their place. It might be better, it might be worse (it’ll probably turn out exactly the same but with a different expression), but any chance is arguably better than the proven 0% represented by what Ch’Thier is proposing.
And honestly, this solution has probably been tried before, too. It’s just that it would predate Marion.
All this to say, essentially, that Ranna’s idea is the best one so far.
As a longtime person, I would humbly submit that *gods* are the problem, and ought to be retired to the nearest convenient, inescapable pocket dimension at the first available opportunity.
Yeah, people would just raise new gods. But maybe the hidden benefit of the low-magic Age to come is that people will have a few millennia of breathing room, to see what they can become on their own, before sufficient magic returns to make new gods possible.
Naw. Elves existed before the gods. Or rather, before a small number of existing elves *became* the first gods.
And the intervention on Falahn’s part that uplifted monkeys into humans, halflings, and so on, also happened when Falahn was not yet in any way a god; just a very long-lived elven scientist. (In any event, it seems like she sped up an evolutionary process that would eventually have taken place on its own.)
It’s more accurate to say that without people there would be no gods, than the other way around.
Ranna’s not aware we’re entering a new Age of lower magic; all anyone can perceive at the moment (except the clairvoyants, I guess) is that magic is a bit harder to draw upon.
And even then, that Age is coming gradually, at the speed of years. If she were to snap her fingers and instantly remove every god in existence the hell out of our galaxy, the time between that moment and the attempt of people to elevate new gods would be measurable in minutes.
I totally agree, dividing the world into "order" and "chaos", into "good" and "evil" is a disservice to the complexities of real life. No wonder the girls have been in conflict for so many millennia.
And we still have the locked and loaded weapon of the mages…
So, some people in the comments for the previous pages were getting disappointed by how the conflict seemed to be resolving peacefully… hope you guys are happy now! 😉
…Well then. Well-played, Mr. Morris. It is amazing how disturbing a cartoonish pencil-and-paper drawing style can be, when in more "realistic" art forms this would look tacky. As with any good twist, not entirely unexpected, but not easily predicted either. I’m curious though, Ranna did "seem" chastened by Marion’s speech… so it must have had some impact. Is this a final act of defiance so befitting her personality from the beginning? An attempt to reunite Order and Chaos into one being? Or is it that her follower-derived propensity to opportunistic treachery (Like a cat pouncing on a small squeaky animal or a shark smelling blood) simply too much for her too resist now that Ch’Thier is giving her an opening?
I will say, my initial doubts about where this conclusion are gone with this event. There is definitely a mix of personal judgment and faith-based compulsion affecting how deities in this narrative behave, that refuses to make excuses for their actions and those of their followers, the way so many fantasy works do on the flimsiest of excuses (Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Narnia, even The Lord of Rings to an extent… it gets very depressing). That is rather reassuring to me – so much of fantasy works accept certain conventions without thinking about where they come from and what they may be analogies for in real life, and many claim it is irrelevant to their story anyway. In contrast, Mr. Morris apologized for an entirely unforeseeable coincidence when the national protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder coincided with the attack on Ranna by white characters. That wasn’t an apology he needed to make, given that scene was part of the culmination of a narrative years in the making, but it was one that indicated he actually cares about the message he is presenting. So few authors do that and don’t make it self-advertising at the same time. So, well done 🙂
Thank you Paleomancer, for those very kind and encouraging words!
And thank you, t! for always being in my court. And from experience I know that it’s not just the friendship talking. You’ve never been one to hold back criticism and I appreciate that too.
Time to run Ranna, you do know that she and you are "influenced" by your worshipers. You did eat/harm Ch’Thier in front of here devotees then she offerd you mercy and forgiveness.
The worshipers will want Ch’Thier to be the goddess of just vengens now…..
Can't say this is very surprising, regardless of whether Ranna became the goddess of evil through her worshippers or her own choices, that's who she is now and expecting learning the backstory to change that really doesn't make much sense.
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uh oh!
Oh no, curse your sudden but inevitable betreyal.
Yeah, I’m wearing my surprised face -_-
For sure, Richard totally nailed the individual characterizations leading up to this moment.
t!
Pretty sure that IS Ranna choosing to be evil this time.
"So I’m not the Goddess of Evil. I can still be evil on my own time. Girl needs a hobby."
Is she? We just heard how the gods are shaped by their followers, all of her followers still see her as evil, power hungry and cruel so how could she be anything else?
Perhaps, but every other time it’s ended with Marion convincing Ranna to stand down, so there’s the possibility that the knowledge Marion shares gives them the ability to think things through without their follower’s influence. (Kind of like a parent sitting down with a rebellious teenager and showing how much of a bad influence their friends are having, giving them a moment of clarity).
Personally, I feel that it’s better narratively that being evil is Ranna’s choice rather than something thrust upon her, but that’s just my own personal opinion.
Yes, Ranna stands down and goes away to think, Ch’Thier leaves fuming and remains angry
Hard to say, but I would argue that no matter what Marion thinks, this proves Ranna is beyond any rehabilitation. She must be destroyed. Suddenly it’s good that the mages didn’t stopped building that spell …
Sure. Whether Ranna just freely chose her course, or whether she’s helpless to defy her followers, she’s turned down the only shot at redemption the world can afford to offer her.
> she’s turned down the only shot at redemption
I suppose that depends on what we believe her motives are.
If she’s just doing this out of spite or selfish pleasure, then your interpretation is bang-on.
But I’d argue that *burning it all down* is her one and only shot at redemption, and if it is, she’s embracing it.
t!
not evil; just a sort of… bad
Considering all the shit Ch’Thier and her followers have done to Ranna, let’s call this… a little payback
Not saying that Ranna isn’t a (completely) innocent party in this, but let’s look at what Team Golden Hair has done: after Ranna get’s banned from all official functions because she gets bored and ‘acts up’, she and Her people leave the village, TGH decide to pull down their old homes (probably before they even got out of sight) to build Castle TGH, and then they start spreading lies about Ranna that *everyone* was quick to believe to be true
Whenever the Sisters get together to beat out their differences in a ‘healthy controlled’ fashion and Auntie comes along to break it, it is *Ch’Thier* who wants continue the fight and *Ranna* who leaves peacefully
Again, this is just one idiots take on all this
Panel 5.
Mind-blowing.
She does not look convincing *at all*.
But you have to look close.
Staggering facial work.
t!
I’m never sure these subtleties read well. Thank you for that!
Yep. Figured that was too easy. You can’t info dump your way out of this one.
Well’p. That’s that, then. Time to bring out the god-whacking stick!
I guess this is how magic died in that world, the next few pages won’t be pretty.
Poor Chithy, she forgot that rule, the one about living in the Current Century…..
And apparently, this is the inevitable result of Evil looking cool and Good being the low I.Q. option, but that’s been a running argument since 1st Edition D&D.
I thought the magic didn’t so much die as it became much weaker.
If I have been following properly then magic is ambient in the ether but a god would help funnel it to their followers. The effect of followers on their deity has a response between the two. It follows a type of rule of physics.
Good is not dumb. Remember, the movie that coined that phrase, "Spaceballs," had it being said by an incompetent boob wearing an oversized plastic hat, right before he shot himself in the groin with his own Schwartz ray.
If anything, evil is stupid – especially in a D&D setting where you KNOW what kind of afterlife awaits you.
Oh, I agree! Its just that the message we keep getting in fiction (all of it) is just so… bleak. And there was that show "Lucifer" that bothers me, and I’m not even a Christian.
I dunno, forget it, I bought a bed from a very disreputable company and have been getting by on 3 hours of sleep a night for most of this week.
Erf. I had that problem once. Salesman screwed us over. I was polite but firm with the manager, and ended up getting a free futon out of it in the end.
Most people don’t actually know what afterlife awaits them. And the ones that have an idea often get the details wrong (nobody who earns a place in Hell thinks they’ll end up on the very bottom of the hierarchy when they get there), Then add in that if you follow an evil god you get whatever afterlife they decide you get instead of what you’d deserve morally.
So what Marion ended up accomplishing, inadvertently, was showing Ranna that Ch’Thier had something she wanted for herself after all.
The Goddess of Evil would never have wanted to devour and incorporate the Goddess of Good; that was a portfolio she had no interest in. But for the Goddess of Chaos to devour the Goddess of Law, seize both portfolios, and continue to be as evil as she wants because that’s just *her*; it’s not either of their essences as deities?
Total win, thinks Ranna!
I don’t know; if Chaos and Order end up being manifest within the same being, she may end up becoming something quite different from what she intends.
Well, you got Harmony from the combination of Preservation and Ruin….
So yeap. Marion’s story very much told how the gods change to fit what their worshippers think of them. Ranna’s been worshipped as a goddess of evil for so long with nobody having a clue about any of this "chaos" stuff, why would she even actually BE this supposed goddess of chaos rather than a goddess of evil anymore? And why would she do anything but exactly this? GG no re, as they say
All that, and Ranna just found out Ch’Thier’s actions are to blame in part for what she became.
Evil Overlord List #22:
No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head.
Of course, Ranna’s never given any sign of being a competent villain…
Don’t forget "I will not turn into a snake. It never helps" just got crossed off the list, too!
Okay, so *that* happened!
Two cookies for making me spit coffee a little while laughing
*checks the game cards, marks a few with a dauber* I only need one more square and I have 3 bingos….
My guess it says "The Return of Captain Fang".
Well if one consumes another…do they become one
I was wondering this too.
Great payoff for the extended (and well-earned) exposition.
Caught in the middle of a hundred and five / Far away on the other side / The night was heavy, and the air was alive / But she couldn’t find how to push through.
– Mike Oldfield, "Moonlight Shadow"
*Love* that song, always have 🙂
I have a youtube playlist consisting only of covers of that song. (My favourite is the Rick Arena German dance remix.)
I was seriously wondering, when Ch’Thier hugged Ranna: "Which of them is going to be first to stab the other in the back?"
…
Well. Now we know.
Ranna! Don’t talk with your mouth full!!
Yeah, if a deity of chaos and cruelty expects to consume a deity of purity and pacifism to take her power and portfolio, she’s fooling herself if she thinks she’s not gonna have something dramatic happen to her.
And maybe Ch’Thier knew that.
If nothing else, Ch’Thier knows that there is a backup plan should she fail to talk Ranna down. I wonder if, upon absorbing Ch’Thier’s power, Ranna will also gain her memories, and hew knowledge of the mages’ plans.
If so, the next bit might be a quick-draw contest: can the mages and priestesses trigger their trap before Ranna shoots down their flying Temple?
Well, Ch’Thier is not completly eaten yet, so she could try to fight back. I don’t think she would succed though, Ranna still should have the power of 10 gods after all…
The idea of getting her memories is an interesting one. In that case she will surely show the power in her left tit – she will need it to fight the mages. 🙂
You bring up a good point. I don’t remember if any of the other deities Ranna ate had a noticeable impact on her personality, or if she just subsumed them as she consumed them.
She did kinda undergo a physical change after consummation
she did remember Jone shortly after devouring Gruumsh.
Well, THIS bites…
That was a cheap shot!
In between panels 6 and 7 the theme from "Jaws" starts playing.
No no, C is for Cookie, not for Ch’Thier. Nom on some cookies instead.
Poor front-row soldiers will be seeing that last panel in their nightmares for the rest of their lives…
So close…. 🙁
We build moment Rich.
Ranna was taken damage, so she use the time Marion speak to heal herself and of course gain knowledge.
The question will be who will be the one who is going to cut Rannas neck in the next comic (they are human size so could be anyone)
Wonder if we’re going to see the little figment of Ranna’s creation again? It’s all progressing as I expected. (And by that, I mean it’s super entertaining.)
I like Lil’ Figment. She seems to be much wiser than her newly created status would attest to.
I hope Lady Marion gets away in time. Also that Trevor has enough paper to record all this!
Yeahhh I had a feeling Ranna wasn’t gonna go with the flow
Snake.. rabbit.. yeah
Note the shocked expressions from *all* the background characters in panel six?
Hehe. Hihi. Hahaha. MUAHAHAHA!
You bastard!
I love you! 😀
Man, I hope the next installment drops this Friday/Saturday. I don’t think I can wait a whole weekend (or more?) to see where this is going
Sorry, I’ll try but it’s been an unusually busy week.
Nothing to apologize for. Take time to keep yourself sane, and whenever you’re ready to update, we’ll be on the edge of our seats!
+1
Also, while I share the excitement, I’d much rather a delay than a strip you rushed and weren’t happy with.
t!
Likewise, take your time, and don’t feel pressured to post it until you’re happy with it.
Try not to overwork yourself. Your well-being is much more important than us seeing what happens next sooner.
And here I was, thinking they were gonna stop fighting ._.
I see no fight 😉
Complete annihilation of one or both sides is a way to stop fighting too! ;D
So a scorpion and a frog meet by the side of a lake…
I like Ranna’s plan. It is, at this point, the most logical and overall beneficial course of action.
*Follow:
Ch’Thier is pushing the viewpoint of Order, advocating ‘fixing’ things, which consists of aborting the current conflict, healing the wounded, rebuilding the cities… and essentially returning to the status quo.
Which, as Marion’s story demonstrates, is not a long-term solution. It’s been tried. It has never worked.
The gods themselves are less powerful than the cumulative misapprehensions of the people (synonym for people in this context: mob). Ultimately, and inevitably, whatever daisy-chain utopia Ch’Thier envisions is going to be dragged back into conflict – and she might even be the one instigating it.
"If fate works at all, it’s because people think that this time, it isn’t going to happen."
Enter the Chaos solution.
People are the problem. And they’re going to override the best of intentions, every time. So – let’s wipe ’em out and see what grows up in their place. It might be better, it might be worse (it’ll probably turn out exactly the same but with a different expression), but any chance is arguably better than the proven 0% represented by what Ch’Thier is proposing.
And honestly, this solution has probably been tried before, too. It’s just that it would predate Marion.
All this to say, essentially, that Ranna’s idea is the best one so far.
t!
* Yes, I am a huge Laura Holt fan.
As a longtime person, I would humbly submit that *gods* are the problem, and ought to be retired to the nearest convenient, inescapable pocket dimension at the first available opportunity.
Yeah, people would just raise new gods. But maybe the hidden benefit of the low-magic Age to come is that people will have a few millennia of breathing room, to see what they can become on their own, before sufficient magic returns to make new gods possible.
Just remember: if it wasn’t for the gods, there would be no ‘people’
Naw. Elves existed before the gods. Or rather, before a small number of existing elves *became* the first gods.
And the intervention on Falahn’s part that uplifted monkeys into humans, halflings, and so on, also happened when Falahn was not yet in any way a god; just a very long-lived elven scientist. (In any event, it seems like she sped up an evolutionary process that would eventually have taken place on its own.)
It’s more accurate to say that without people there would be no gods, than the other way around.
Ranna’s not aware we’re entering a new Age of lower magic; all anyone can perceive at the moment (except the clairvoyants, I guess) is that magic is a bit harder to draw upon.
And even then, that Age is coming gradually, at the speed of years. If she were to snap her fingers and instantly remove every god in existence the hell out of our galaxy, the time between that moment and the attempt of people to elevate new gods would be measurable in minutes.
t!
I totally agree, dividing the world into "order" and "chaos", into "good" and "evil" is a disservice to the complexities of real life. No wonder the girls have been in conflict for so many millennia.
And we still have the locked and loaded weapon of the mages…
"A scorpion and a frog meet by the side of a lake"… Heh… Maybe if we take the variant version of the tale, the one that ends with:
"Why did you do that? Now, we both will drown!" "But, little frog, I can swim."
Well, she tried.
Game on.
At least Ranna is trying to get into Ch’Thier’s head concerning this situation.
(Thank you! I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!)
No, Ch’Thier is finally getting into Ranna’s head
Ranna is trying to get her head around what Ch’Thier has said (plus the rest of her)
(sings) "I’ve got you… under my skin…"
So, some people in the comments for the previous pages were getting disappointed by how the conflict seemed to be resolving peacefully… hope you guys are happy now! 😉
…Well then. Well-played, Mr. Morris. It is amazing how disturbing a cartoonish pencil-and-paper drawing style can be, when in more "realistic" art forms this would look tacky. As with any good twist, not entirely unexpected, but not easily predicted either. I’m curious though, Ranna did "seem" chastened by Marion’s speech… so it must have had some impact. Is this a final act of defiance so befitting her personality from the beginning? An attempt to reunite Order and Chaos into one being? Or is it that her follower-derived propensity to opportunistic treachery (Like a cat pouncing on a small squeaky animal or a shark smelling blood) simply too much for her too resist now that Ch’Thier is giving her an opening?
I will say, my initial doubts about where this conclusion are gone with this event. There is definitely a mix of personal judgment and faith-based compulsion affecting how deities in this narrative behave, that refuses to make excuses for their actions and those of their followers, the way so many fantasy works do on the flimsiest of excuses (Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Narnia, even The Lord of Rings to an extent… it gets very depressing). That is rather reassuring to me – so much of fantasy works accept certain conventions without thinking about where they come from and what they may be analogies for in real life, and many claim it is irrelevant to their story anyway. In contrast, Mr. Morris apologized for an entirely unforeseeable coincidence when the national protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder coincided with the attack on Ranna by white characters. That wasn’t an apology he needed to make, given that scene was part of the culmination of a narrative years in the making, but it was one that indicated he actually cares about the message he is presenting. So few authors do that and don’t make it self-advertising at the same time. So, well done 🙂
That very loud sound you may hear off in the distance is me enthusiastically applauding this well-observed and excellently written comment.
Thank you.
t!
Thank you Paleomancer, for those very kind and encouraging words!
And thank you, t! for always being in my court. And from experience I know that it’s not just the friendship talking. You’ve never been one to hold back criticism and I appreciate that too.
Time to run Ranna, you do know that she and you are "influenced" by your worshipers. You did eat/harm Ch’Thier in front of here devotees then she offerd you mercy and forgiveness.
The worshipers will want Ch’Thier to be the goddess of just vengens now…..
Oops. I was afraid of that.
Welp, looks like the big spell will get used after all.
Well Ranna always was the lateral thinker. This will solve the central problem, though just not in the way either of them expected.
There can be only one.
Strangely this turn of events actually makes my initial theory for how this would end possible again.
Tea and scones?
Damn King Lewie for being right.
An accord? Ha, more like: DIIIIISCOOOOORD!!! XD
Discord? No, datcord over dere.
What a tweest!!
Pity C doesn’t have her wings out in this scene.
"Anybody Order chicken???"
I didn’t see that coming! *starts searching for jaw*
Goddess of Chaos, doing something Random?
Imagine. My. Shock.
I am truly puzzled what about her behaviour you think might qualify as ‘random.’
t!
Well, something someone didn’t see coming could qualify as "random", right?
More… ‘unexpected’ than ‘random’
Looks like nobody else has said it so… "Git in mah belly!!"
The real question is, does Ranna still have a Left Tit of power when she goes serpent like that?
No! Bad goddess! Bad. Spit it out! Spit. It. Out.
*Swats Ranna’s nose with a newspaper*
Dumbass.
Can't say this is very surprising, regardless of whether Ranna became the goddess of evil through her worshippers or her own choices, that's who she is now and expecting learning the backstory to change that really doesn't make much sense.